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It's a sad day, but not an unexpected one. Releasing the source is the best thing you could have done.

Though I do have some questions:

Were all team members really on board to have the source code released? That's kind of amazing!

Secondly... "release as open source", yes, but under what license? GPL? BSD? MIT? A Creative Commons license? Or something more restrictive? If anyone decides to pick this up and finish it, what should and shouldn't they be allowed to do?

Finally, it seems there is a .gitignore file, so there has to have been a .git folder with revision history. Is there any reason that was omitted? Perhaps going back to earlier commits before refactoring might make it easier for people to cobble certain features back together into a working (or more coherent) state.

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The git history has been omitted intentionally because of a member's request. Regarding the license, personally I'm not a believer in oss licenses but I'm asking what the others would like and will update soon with what they decide.

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Did the developer's also request to omit the tactics game source? If not, is there any particular reason it isn't in the files? I understand this source drop is mostly a proof of work so I don't want to ask for too much. Considering the state of the demo being fairly complete I could see it being because it would be easier to polish up and "steal" it and make some sort of profit off of it. Correct me if wrong but I also recall something about it being a parallel project that was worked on mostly by a separate dev. Despite this, is there any chance it could be added?

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You are correct in that it's a completely separate project. I will ask but no promises.

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Added license information

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Cool, thanks for the clarifications and the license addition. May things go well in the future for everyone involved. :)